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Sitting down to watch the gay vampire show with my cousin and them being surprised about the gay vampires…
whedon meme :: River Tam ⇉ characters [5 of 8]
Dr. Grace? Maybe.
PROJECT HAIL MARY 2026 — dir. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller
It’s vitally important that people remember that no matter how many followers someone has on here they’re still literally just some person with a blog and not, like, The Authority on anything.
some people really do need to start reminding themselves that the answer to "why didn't the character just do [something entirely different]" is often simply "because then there wouldn't be a story"
the most unrealistic part of teen wolf is how they all graduated and went to college after missing damn near half of all their classes
With the increasing number of student deaths, the administration had to graduate someone 😔☠️😭
med people are so annoying "This family's 8 year old child who was about to go through a major surgery and kept crying that she was hungry so they pitied her and gave her food, she then had a heart attack in the surgery. They're so stupid 😒" girl they didn't know that could happen or why it happens. it takes so little time to explain to them that will happen instead of telling them "no food" with no explanation 10 times
"Before surgery, your body’s reflexes that protect your airway are relaxed by anesthesia. If there’s food or liquid in your stomach, it will near certainly come back up and go into your lungs, which can cause choking, a severe lung / heart infection or even a heart attack. That’s called aspiration, and it is life-threatening. It's hard, but it's only a single day to prevent near certain death. Not eating or drinking beforehand massively lowers the risk and helps prevent these life threatening situations under anesthesia." <- TIP: patients have brains which allows them to receive information just like you
I have four kids. I’ve had one or another of them need some kind of surgical procedure that requires anesthesia four or five times over the past 15 years.
This Tumblr post is the first time someone has explained to me *why* I couldn’t feed them before those instances.
I’m not stupid. I understood that just fine. Hell, my kids would have understood that just fine. But no one bothered to tell us.
i did know this before having kids (i have six). we have a kid that's needed multiple procedures requiring anesthesia. and every single time, i am asked multiple times if i'm sure he was not given any food or water after a certain point.
every single time i have had to say, "i understand that if he had food or water, he could aspirate it into his lungs under anesthesia. i am not lying to you." THEN someone would make a little note and i would stop being repeatedly asked.
not a single time was that risk explained to me. the only reason it came up was because i already knew. i still don't understand why it isn't standard pre-op counseling or pre-op check information, when me as a parent acknowledging the actual risk also put THE MEDICAL STAFF at ease because i conveyed that i had informed understanding as reason to not lie about giving my kid food.
"maybe some people will get nervous and refuse surgery" okay so they need more counseling about risks and anxiety, not less information in a way that actually does endanger their child or themselves!
Reblogging to save a life and teach medical professionals basic communication skills
hi besties in my phone. i hope today is so so good to you. i hope something special happens to remind you that it’s not always bad. ily.
[ID from alt: Black and white acrylic painting of a banana tree. End ID]
Which do you prefer?
Tampons
Disposable pads
Reusable pads
Menstrual cups
Menstrual discs
Period underwear
Multiple
Other
Free-bleeding
I don’t have periods
hey, blog! 🌸 anon here. I think there are probably other posts about long fic, but I was wondering if you or others have any advice on sticking to a single long story instead of jumping to another? I'm mostly of a short fic writer myself, and I'm so interested in the secrets long fic writers possess. Anyway, thank you for running this blog! An awesome project :)
I'll give you my secrets as a fellow short fic writer who sometimes dips into medium-fic and the occasional long fic.
Be obsessed with your story. This can go a LONG way to helping you maintain your motivation. Daydream about it. Make playlists about it. Talk to friends about it.
Try to make each chapter feel like a oneshot. Give it an opening, a middle, and a closing. Have some character development or achieve a plot point or drop a clue that will be used later in the story. The more you can give yourself the satisfaction you get from a oneshot, the better.
Do jump to oneshots on the side to keep you going through the long fic. Sometimes you really do need to get the feeling of "done" to be able to continue something that's still in progress. Don't deny yourself that feeling just because you think you should. Life needs dessert and short fic writers need completed works.
Embrace a B plot (and a C plot and a D plot). These side plots can last for a single chapter or can be threaded through the whole story or they can bridge from chapter 12 to chapter 18. Whatever their final form, these smaller stories-within-the-story also help to satisfy the need for a short, punchy hit of dopamine when the story is starting to feel huge.
I'll leave it there for now and open it up. How do the rest of you go about writing longer stories? Especially if you typically prefer to write shorter.
Longfic writer enjoyer here. I'm going to agree with all this, but #2 I do a bit differently.
I treat each chapter like an "episode" of a TV series that has a reputation to get people to binge watch. So I studied what it was about a few of them that makes people want more in my genre I write in (examples are Squid Game, Hannibal, Dexter, You, Based on a True Story, etc.)
The build up and endings in each episode. They all had a cliffhanger in common.
So I don't really give my chapters a "satisfying end", and I make sure the last paragraph and story note ends on a high stake.
This does two things that is ultimately the same thing:
(1) Keeps me excited to start the next chapter.
(2) Keeps other people's interest to read the next chapter.
If you leave the ending of the chapter on a cliffhanger that is intense, it also has more of a chance for it to generate conversation about the fic/chapter due to positive-frustration of the reader wanting to know what will happen next.
This then creates engagement that helps keep you personally motivated too! A few people created a tumblr accounts just so they could DM me to chat personally about a chapter/cliffhanger with me before even.
Good luck, anon! I'm rooting for you.
This can't be fucking real oh my god.
the most essential part of a fandom are those people who immediately tell you to write it, draw it, make it when you share your ideas, you have no idea how many fanworks are born just because someone encouraged it
another great way to make sure this continues is pressing the reblog button and going insane in the tags
immediately adding ‘fandom conga lines’ to my vocab
LEVERAGE | 4.07 // 4.11
